TEUFEL Probe: Difference between revisions

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Cruising Speed: 300 kph
Maximum Speed: 1000 kph
Nominal Range: 1 Meter - 1 AU from Vessel
Maximum Range: 21 AU Control
2.5 ly Relay

The newly developed TEUFEL (Tracking and Evasive Unmanned Field Exploration Lookout) Sensor Probe is an entirely new design in remote sensing and threat assessment. These small, 1.7 meter diameter truncated-sphere probes are launched from a ship. The probes, made of energy absorbent materials, are extremely difficult to detect and operate on a micro-gravity displacement generated within the core by a Spacial Variance Reactor. The simple onboard AI system enables operator command input.

Capabilities

Operational Capacity: A ship can handle up to 20 TEUFEL Probes operating simultaneously.
Group Operation: Capable of operating independently or in groups to enhance sensor strength through array pattern formation.
Rapid Direction Change: Can execute sudden direction changes in three-dimensional space within microseconds, making their movement paths hard to track.
Adaptive Pathing: Follows pre-programmed paths, often erratic, with ability to plot random or semi-random course changes for evasion and varied sensor readings.
Sensor Suite: Equipped with a comprehensive range of short and long-range sensors, able to detect and analyze various types of data.
Refractive Warp Drive: Able to use a ship's existing warp field to travel through space at warp speed, matching the ship's speed without requiring their own warp drives. This enables them to achieve the same speed as the ship within a 21 AU range.
Communications: Employs precise point-to-point subspace enhanced direct beam communications, similar to laser pulse communications but at faster-than-light speeds. Also utilizes subspace high frequency burst communications for communication with their vessel or with each other as required.
Neural Net Communication: Developed independently via a neural net algorithm, their inter-probe communication adapts to suit each situation. Probes from the same ship share a unique communication language.
Encryption and Security: Uses a multi-dimensional fractal encryption algorithm that routinely alters timing and frequency range of all subspace communications. Encryption keys are frequently rotated, synced at launch time. Also uses a signal authentication key tied to the ship's transponder code.
Offensive Capability: In extreme circumstances, the probes can be commanded to overload their power cores, causing sizable explosions. Coordinated detonations can serve as a powerful weapon.

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 ; Nominal Range : 1 Meter - 1 AU from Vessel
 ; Maximum Range : 21 AU Control<br>2.5 ly Relay
-The newly developed TEUFEL (Tracking and Evasive Unmanned Field Exploration Lookout) Sensor Probe is an entirely new design in remote sensing and threat assessment. These are small 1.7 meter diameter truncated-sphere probes that are launched from a ship. Constructed of energy absorbent materials, they are extremely difficult to detect and operate on a micro-gravity displacement generated within the core by a [[Spacial Variance Reactor]]. The probes have a simple AI system that allows them to be given simple commands from their operator.
-Their primary purpose is to act as lookouts, flying near the ship to relay sensor information back to the ship's main computer and command center. Equipped with a full sensor suite of short-range and long-range sensors, they can operate independently or in groups. When in groups, they can enhance their sensor strength by arranging themselves into array patterns for higher sensitivity.
+The newly developed TEUFEL (Tracking and Evasive Unmanned Field Exploration Lookout) Sensor Probe is an entirely new design in remote sensing and threat assessment. These small, 1.7 meter diameter truncated-sphere probes are launched from a ship. The probes, made of energy absorbent materials, are extremely difficult to detect and operate on a micro-gravity displacement generated within the core by a [[Spacial Variance Reactor]]. The simple onboard AI system enables operator command input.
-TEUFEL Probes can perform sudden direction changes in three-dimensional space within microseconds. They usually follow a pre-programmed erratic path, making them difficult to track. They can also plot random or semi-random course changes for varied sensor readings and enhanced evasion.
+== Capabilities ==
+; Operational Capacity: A ship can handle up to 20 TEUFEL Probes operating simultaneously.
-A ship can handle 20 TEUFEL Probes operating simultaneously.
+; Group Operation: Capable of operating independently or in groups to enhance sensor strength through array pattern formation.
+; Rapid Direction Change: Can execute sudden direction changes in three-dimensional space within microseconds, making their movement paths hard to track.
-== Communications ==
+; Adaptive Pathing: Follows pre-programmed paths, often erratic, with ability to plot random or semi-random course changes for evasion and varied sensor readings.
-TEUFEL Probes can communicate with the vessel that launched them and with each other. They employ precise point-to-point subspace enhanced direct beam communications, similar to laser pulse communications but operating faster than light. They use subspace high frequency burst communications to communicate with their vessel or with each other, if required.
+; Sensor Suite: Equipped with a comprehensive range of short and long-range sensors, able to detect and analyze various types of data.
+; Refractive [[Warp Drive]]: Able to use a ship's existing warp field to travel through space at warp speed, matching the ship's speed without requiring their own warp drives. This enables them to achieve the same speed as the ship within a 21 AU range.
-These probes operate on a multi-dimensional fractal encryption algorithm, routinely altering the timing and frequency range of all subspace communications. This ensures that only the vessel which launched the probes will know the next communication channel, duration, and timing. The encryption keys are also frequently rotated, synced at launch time.
+; Communications: Employs precise point-to-point subspace enhanced direct beam communications, similar to laser pulse communications but at faster-than-light speeds. Also utilizes subspace high frequency burst communications for communication with their vessel or with each other as required.
+; Neural Net Communication: Developed independently via a neural net algorithm, their inter-probe communication adapts to suit each situation. Probes from the same ship share a unique communication language.
-The probes' inter-probe communication protocol, developed independently along a neural net algorithm, adapts to suit each situation. As a result, a set of TEUFEL Probes can only communicate with the ship they were launched from or other probes from that ship. This unique language means that probes from another vessel would be unintelligible, and the next communication channel, frequency, timing, or encryption key would be impossible to predict.
+; Encryption and Security: Uses a multi-dimensional fractal encryption algorithm that routinely alters timing and frequency range of all subspace communications. Encryption keys are frequently rotated, synced at launch time. Also uses a signal authentication key tied to the ship's transponder code.
+; Offensive Capability: In extreme circumstances, the probes can be commanded to overload their power cores, causing sizable explosions. Coordinated detonations can serve as a powerful weapon.
-For added security, the signals can be authenticated to a key tied to the ship's transponder code. Although one cannot deduce the key from the transponder code, a fraudulent signal trying to mimic the mother ship would be obvious as the keys would not match, even if the transponder codes did.
-== Offensive Deployment ==
-While not designed as weapons, TEUFEL Probes can be deployed offensively. They can be directed to overload their power cores, causing sizable explosions. A coordinated detonation of several probes could serve as a powerful last-ditch weapon.
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